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Add this copy of The Secret Societies of Ireland: Their Rise and to cart. $30.01, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
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Like Mark Twain's description of golf as "a good walk, spoiled", this is a non-scholastic history of the role of secret societies in the 900 years of trouble between the Irish and the English. Written in 1922 and published in 1998, Pollard's basic premise is that the Irish "race" is incapable of understanding or supporting the rule of law. If you can get around the author's unmitigated patronizing Anglo-Saxon superiority, there is some useful discussion of the secret societies, their reflection of the social movements of the times, and the birth of the IRA. Pollard's opinion is frequently indulged and is mostly codwallop.
